Saturday, September 7, 2013

31DC2013 Day 07: Black and White Midnight Smoke Nail Art

When brainstorming the black and white prompt, my mind ended up at white smoke, curling and billowing across a black sky. The best way to achieve a smoke effect (in my humble opinion) is with the watercolor technique! I tried to make the effect somewhat directional, like the smoke was actually moving from my pinky to my pointer.

If you've never tried the watercolor technique, you can watch a tutorial on Beauty Geeks or Rebecca Likes Nails. For my manicure, I used Duri Cosmetics Into the Further as my black and Milani White On the Spot as the white. Side note, Into the Further is a really fantastic black!

I attempted to make a smoke ring on my thumb. Not too shabby I think!

The watercolor effect did an amazing job of mimicking the look of smoke -- it feels like it was made for this! Lucky for me, the technique did all of the heavy lifting for this manicure.

I would really, really love a tutorial for this, too! This would be so awesome because I think it looks really insane. It looks so much like real smoke on your fingers, I couldn't believe it when I first saw this manicure. So please, film a tutorial for all us hungry nailsfreaks! :)

Wow, this is so awesome! I love this! I REALLY suck at the watercolor technique, so I'm really hoping I can do this-I just love black & white manis, I never get tired of them, they're just so chic, so I'm always looking for cool ways to use that combo-I hope this works for me!